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Cruise ships must be effectively regulated to minimise serious environment impact

The cruise ship industry should be subject to global monitoring and effective legislation because of its continuous increasing impact on both the environment and human health and wellbeing, according to new research.

AD Ports Group and NYUAD advance coral relocation research efforts

Research Study to Examine Best Global Practices and Enhance Future Projects in Middle East and Around the World

NASA satellites show how clouds respond to Arctic sea ice change

Clouds are one of the biggest wildcards in predictions of how much and how fast the Arctic will continue to warm in the future.

Maritime rope could be adding billions of microplastics to the ocean every year

The hauling of rope on maritime vessels could result in billions of microplastic fragments entering the ocean every year, according to new research.

New ocean temperature data help scientists make their hot predictions

The ubiquity of the Argo floats offers unprecedented real-time monitoring of ocean temperatures

NOAA awards $7.3 million for marine debris removal, prevention, and research

Matching grants bring total to $14.7 million for 25 projects

Study: Extreme sea levels to become much more common

Global warming will cause extreme sea levels to occur almost every year by the end of the century, impacting major coastlines worldwide, according to new research from an international team of scientists.

Napier Port launches sustainability strategy and action plan

The strategy extends out to a 10-year time frame

Artificial intelligence to help predict Arctic sea ice loss

IceNet, the AI predictive tool, is almost 95?curate in predicting whether sea ice will be present two months ahead—better than the leading physics-based model.

Increased snowfall will offset sea level rise from melting Antarctic ice sheet

Using modern methods to calculate projected changes to sea levels, researchers discovered that the two ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica respond differently, reflecting their very distinct local climates.

Rivers are largest global source of mercury in oceans

The mercury that rivers transport into the ocean can come from atmospheric mercury that has ended up in soils; it can also come from other anthropogenic sources

Akvaplan-niva leading new project on Polar Front ecology

Akvaplan-niva has been awarded funding from the Research Council of Norway to study the role of the Polar Front in ecosystem structure and function in the western Barents Sea.

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